Some time ago, I linked a video from NUCLEARVIDEOSHD on how to maximize yor game dollars (and you can find it here). Here’s what RerockerFC has to say on the topic:

How can you earn more money in the game? Here are the main things you can do:

Send your characters on tasks frequently!

As much as you can, send them on short tasks (30 minutes or 1 hour) while you’re sitting by your game – the moment they finish, you can collect the rewards. However, when you’re not playing, send them on tasks almost equal to the amount of time you plan to be gone. For example, if you’re going to sleep, send them on 6-8 hour tasks. You can also send all your players on 24 hour tasks and, when they’re all done, you’ll have a big pot of gold waiting for you (around $10,000).Tip: Premium characters and characters in premium costumes generally earn 50% more money than regular characters for tasks that take the same amount of time.

Premium Items

As much as most of us don’t like spending our precious donuts on premium items, I have to say it’s worth it. After all, they give you bonuses on all cash and XP you earn. Consider buying at least a couple and especially the ones that fetch you higher bonuses, such as the Springfield Sign (my favourite).

Conform-O-Meter

Getting higher stars at the Conform-o-meter not only demonstrates (to an extent) your progress in the game but also gives you a greater bonus. However, even if the bonus is lower than the maximum, it’s still a bonus! With 5 stars you get a 5% bonus on all the money and XP you collect, making it a useful way to increase cash for those who don’t want to buy premium items. And if you don’t want to get the stars to get the bonus, at least get them to impress your friends!

House Farming

Housefarming is always a point of contention among players. But it’s also the best way to make money fast. House farming basically mean a large number of houses whose rent added together gives you a lot of money and XP. It’s my favourite source of extra income for my Springfield – and if you’re a level 27 player it also helps you hit the bonus levels and those free donuts much more often.

After following these methods I make around 60,000 every morning! Following on from yesterday’s post, let me know what you collect, and share any tips you have on making money fast!

How the hell are you all doing this?
I’m level 26 and get about $14,000 a day. I get no bonus doughnuts, I think I saw 1 from a snake egg once. I’ve hit 10 doughnuts maybe twice since I started, just spent 10 on a fence and hammock.

Some of you people are saying you have 100’s of doughnuts and millions of $$, where are you getting all of this from? Are you all paying real money for upgrades and perks?

I’ve only just been offered Mrs Crabapple and the Channel News Studio. WTF

the game takes several months to get to the highest level offered, and many have been playing longer. now as far as the 100’s or 1000’s of doughnuts that some people have, i am really wary of saying that they got them solely from leveling up. the only other probably way to get that many when you do not buy, is the game glitching on you and being stuck in a seemingly never ending loop of bonus levels up.

but as far as the more legit way, i have around 520 houses total (premium, limited, normal) with 430+ being purple houses, and i do not even make enough money to pass a level in a day, regardless of selling and buying back stuff.

now i am not saying it is impossible, but i am saying that you would have to have an obscene amount of houses, like 1000 white houses or something to be able to make enough money to buy enough weather stations to pass a level every day with 100k left over in case you do not get three doughnuts the first time around. now, i have not done the math on exactly how many you would need, but i do know, playing all day, with ~430 purple houses and a ~50% multiplier, i only make between 30 and 50,000xp everyday i play costantly. if i slack it could be15-20,000xp.

Now, youre welcome to add me to see what i am talking about, but i am in the middle of a redesign of my town, fourth redesign actually, and the houses are pretty much clumped into groups, that are determined to be moved elsewhere soon when i retire my purple house farm. in fact, only one place in my entire town looks what my town used to be. but at four million (earned entirely from clicking houses), its gone and to hopefully be never seen again. but anyway, my screenname in TSTO is SirLance88.

Anyone else is welcome to add me, but note that if i see someone that hasnt played for two weeks to a month, i defriend them so i do not waste time going and helping someone else out that doesnt play.

Thank you for taking the time to reply 🙂
I see! I only have about 22 purple houses (pink? the 3hr ones) and about 15 blue houses then one of each of the others. I just bought the channel 6 news studio and that seems like a good earner with the broadcasts. I think perhaps I’ve been focusing on expanding my land where other people have been buying buildings.

It’s difficult to design isnt it, you can’t see and overall plan and really need all the land first, I worked out my center point last night so I can divide it into sections.

I guess I’ll just have to see how it goes.

Where do you find out the multiplyer? I have 3.5% on the conformeter and a few low % items like fences. No doughnut cars/items though (no doughnuts :P)

Youre welcome, i frequent this blog often enough and like to put in my two cents every now and then when i find a question unanswered that i think should.

But as far as it being hard to redesign, yes, yes it is and it gets exponentially more complex as you increase how many buildings you have. The last full redesign took me around a week to complete because i really couldnt figure out exactly where to put things and make the town look decent.

on a further note, i actually found some humor in you saying you had divided your town into sections. Reason is is because i was in the process of doing that too. I believe that dividing the entire map into sixteen sections will bode well for how i want to design my town(which is each section has all buildings that regenerate every X amount of hours, noone else i have seen does that.)

And lastly, to find your bonus multiplier, you have a few routes to find it depending on how accurate you want to be in your measurement. If you have any premium characters that pay out $1000 for 24 hours worth of work, that is your best bet in finding out accurately (except for waiting 90 days for corn to grow). If you dont have premuims, send any character on a 24 hour quest and see what they pay out. The process is relatively simple, just make them be the last person you click on when you check your town. When youre sure that you dont have any more dollars or xp flying into your bar, take a screenshot of the amount of money and xp you have. Then, once you click on them, and they update the amount of xp and money you have, take another screenshot.

Now i have to note that i do not know how to take a screen capture on an android phone, so it may be significantly easier to just write down the xp and $ amounts on a paper. But anyway, once you have done that, just minus and divide. I will set up a mock equation so you understand the process.

I have $175,285 after clicking the character and before i 172,365. It would be set up this way: (175,285-174,365). You take youre end result, and minus the supposed payout from the character. It will look like this: (175,285-174,365)= $920 difference. Next we minus the hypothetical payout versus the actual on. So: ($920-$600)= $320 difference. And once we have the difference between hypo and actual, we just divide the difference by the amount we get before bonus multipliers. It looks like this: ($320 / $600)= 53.333333% now that brings up a valid point, if you get a repeating decimel, youre gonna have to plant corn or do a 1000$ task to see what it truly is because the smallest xp bonus payout is 0.05% which if i am right in my math, that is whatever you have multiplied by 0.0005 which wont show up right on cheaper tasks. But its up to you how accurate you want to be (me, i try to be as accurate as possible) but here is the equation again.

After – before = difference1. (175,285-174,365=920.) difference1 is the actual payout for the task you sent them on, 920$ in this case. Difference1-regular payout of task =difference2. (920$ – $600= 320$) difference2 divided by regular payout is your bonus multiplier. (320$/$600= your bonus multiplier, in this case ~53.33%.)

you can use xp amounts instead, its up to you and your preference, just remember to use the xp payout instead of dollar ones and you will be good.

I really hope this helps, but you can let me know if it doesnt and i can try and help.

My maximum daily take is currently sitting at… {drum roll}… $478,694. Max XP without buying weather stations an selling them back is 65,652.6.

My average though is between 200k and $300k as i generally only click on my houses three to five times daily. I have 554 buildings and a lonely 33.2% multiplier btw.

For the person below, the only way to get your big ticket items, in a reasonable amount of time, is to house farm. Otherwise, just keep saving up and not looking at how much cash you have.

I originally topped out at 143 brown houses but that was way too much clicking to get only 1k ever five minutes, so i saved money and bought the same amount of purples. After i bought another plot, more got put down and so on and so forth. Now i have half the map covered by my actual categorized town, and half by my house farm area. It tends to make for a nice double take if at least some area in your town looks nice.

I make about $150,000 a day. I’ve got a few brown, orange, pink, & white houses, more purple and blue — but all spread out and landscaped, not all jammed together (I must admit, in my early days I went through the brown-houses-end-to-end phase, then I had my Blue House period.)

Right now I have a 109% bonus multiplier (lots of police cars, news vans, and 40 hammocks, in addition to all the other premium items.) I usually play in the morning before heading out, in the evening after coming home from work, and a last check at bedtime. My characters go on lots of 8-hour tasks. 🙂

For me, the biggest thing was maxing out on land. Once I didn’t have any more land to buy, my savings shot up. I was able to put a lot of houses in storage, and focus on a lot more decorations.

Right now I’m building up savings after buying the magnifying glass — that was a big hit. I figure I’ll try to squirrel away 3 or 4 million, then put some more houses in storage.

From then on, I foresee demolishing houses in order to make room for new buildings as they come along. If there are other big-ticket items like the escalator, skyscraper, and magnifying glass, I may bring some more houses out of storage temporarily to increase the cash flow.

How can I get at least $100,000 a day without house farming ? I already have all premium items and characters such as Springfield sign volcano lair ECT.
My confirm-o-meter is already at 5 stars and yet only earn $30,000 a day.
Plz reply I really want the big items that are 100,000-300,000.

Hi Michael – depending on how much time I have, I get pretty close. I collect in the korning, at lunch and in the evening and set characters on 6-8 hour tasks overnight. I have some multiple houses (not placed together – I have a suburban build), but not too many. 🙂

Hi Michael – I remember seeing one somewhere where someone had calculated ROI, but I haven’t been able to locate it again. I think it would be very interesting to do. I’ll take a look again later today and let you know if I find it. 🙂

I don’t really understand why people get irate about house farming, but that said, I find it boring when that’s all there is in someone’s town.

I also really dislike it when a whole section of town is houses shoved right up against each other. I had to de friend one person who had the whole top half as white houses, and the whole botto, half as blue houses – the blue houses especially, all stacked together like that, were like some kind of weird optical illusion. It made my head go funny every time I clicked on that town.

I have multiples of various houses, but they’re still laid out along roads and with rivers etc. I have 18 brown houses in three little housing estates around the nuclear plant, and I do have a few houses shoved together down the bottom while I rearrange my town to get better use of space, but to me it’s no fun to just have rows and rows and rows of the same thing. I’d rather earn money more slowly and actually have fun making my Springfield look attractive along the way!

I make just over $1,000 with my brown houses, and this can be done every five minutes. Likewise, sending most characters on three consecutive 60 minute tasks can make more than one 3 hour task. But it all comes down to how much time you have and premium enhancements you have.

I also send people like Otto and Duffman on longer tasks just to keep them out of my hair. Plus, they are less likely to be sent on tasks or involved with quests.

I hit the bonus donuts every 3 days. Rake in approximately 300-400k a day regularly checking my Springfield every 6-8 hours, except at night. At around 8 pm if timed correctly, all my residents (including premiums) go into 12 hour tasks. The more boring Springfieldians are set to 24 hour tasks (Kearney and Bumblebee Man).

The lower quadrant of my Springfield is all house farming, purple houses and blue houses are almost all timed to the tasks, so my screen is a flowing mess of XP and $$$.

Finally, my multiplier from premiums is at 120% more (thank you bonus donuts, golden scratch-r, mystery box, and harp of death glitch).

Currently sitting on 720 donuts which I’m saving for future premium items. Or other regretfully dumb, yet awesome looking landmarks!

i started doing a similar thing recently. i’ve been using white houses and visiting my town every 12 hours (handy that the triffids grow every 12 hours too). now my white house farm is complete – i’m generating plenty of cash. i use this cash currently to buy kwik-e-marts – these finish building in 4 hours and give me 2000xp (+bonus multipliers_. i plan on eventually reconstructing each of my public buildings to determine which gives the best construction XP / Cost ratio. the hospital seems like a good idea as it costs 91,000 (i think) and gives 10,000xp – which is a much higher ratio –